at its role during natural disasters. This article exploits the exogenous nature of the 2013 European floods to assess if …

In the course of the ongoing process of climate change, natural disasters like storms, floods and droughts become more … likely and/or more severe. While there is a growing macroeconomic literature on the growth-effects of natural disasters … especially long-run growth. This paper contributes to filling this gap in the literature by studying behavioural responses to the …

following the severe summer flood of 2013, which affected widespread regions mostly in Eastern Germany. The analysis uses a … primary operational activities. This paper yields various results: German savings and cooperative banks located in the … affected regions experienced a significantly higher, but ephemeral, impairment flow in the years following the flood …

following the severe summer flood of 2013, which affected widespread regions mostly in Eastern Germany. The analysis uses a … primary operational activities. This paper yields various results: German savings and cooperative banks located in the … affected regions experienced a significantly higher, but ephemeral, impairment flow in the years following the flood …

approach, the article assesses the floods' impact on the Ahr valley and analyzes climate-related flood hazard management … finance. Germany can reduce the disaster risk of climate-related flood hazards by strengthening its control and management …

We analyze the exposure of different income groups to the 2021 floods in Germany, which serve as an exemplary case of … natural disasters intensified by anthropogenic climate change. To this end, we link official geo-coded satellite data on flood …-affected buildings to neighborhood-level information on socio-economic status. We then document the empirical relationship between flood …

How can retirement savings be increased? We explore a unique policy change in the context of the German pension system … these letters on the behavior of individuals. We find an increase in tax-deductible private retirement savings and provide … evidence that this is not due to a crowding-out of other forms of savings. We also show that labor earnings, i.e. the most …